The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-06-12
WHAT rs GOING ON Nv souErE:

Cooper's, and Dinners and suppers ut Dolls.
all the very nioagro list OF sooietys doinRs last
weck. The thermometer has been going up
and down as systematically as tho stock mar
ket, and people who couldn't stand II an
other minute" and were of to Tuxedo
and Pelham on Thursday. reappoared
with ulsters and ovcrcoats on Friday
morning, quito content to spend fow moro
days in their town houses. A great many.
however, are already settled in Newport, which
Ia moro beautiful In June than at any other
month. and by tho end Of next week overy cot
tage at Tuxedo which can be made hnbitabls
will be opened and In order.
At Bar Harbor prices run high for house rent
and lodgings. and O very COY season ID OK
pected. Mrs Secretary Whitney has rented
MIRA Burton N. Harrison's cottage, and Mrs.
Reuterskiold has another ono noar by. Mrs.
Blocker Banks Of Albany. who, with her pretty
daughter was one OF tho White House set"
In Washington last winter, has taken cottage
for two months, in which every means and ap-
piance for housekoepins noludinG silver. linen,
brio-A-brao, and servants, are supplied. for the
worry liberal rent that the tenant is willing TO pay
There will DO o large contingent from Phila-
delphia headed by Mrs. James p. Scott, with
all the bellies who have not been married since
last season. Tho same heart burnings. rival
ries. and disappointments which arc not in
digenous to the coast Of Maine. but belong 70
all localities where men and women much do
congreRate are also guaranteed for the enter
tainment of the elderlies and the punishmsnt
Of those who have the temerity TO be younger
prettier. and less conventional than their
neighbors. Rocking, canoeing. and buck.
boarding have always been distinguishing fea-
lures Of Mt. Desert, and the tnroads, OF dress
and fashion are powerless to bantsh thems
but dances, concerts, tandemC, and carte
have somewhat paled their slories, and It ID
only the very rapid or the sentimental who In
dulge in them at the present day.
OF the seaside places In the immediate
neighborhood Of town, Long Branch and
Elberon have always been most popular with
New Workers.. They are essentially places
for business men. while Newport 10 the homo
Of men and women with retired fortunes. Tho
season there has opened earlier than usual.
and the velvet lawns of Elberon are richer and
smoother than ever. Mr.. and Mrs. q @.
Francklyn have been occupying their cot
tage prior TO tho coming Of Mr.. Augustine
Smith, who has rented It for the summer,
Mrs. Moses Taylor and Mrs. Percy R. Pyne WIN
spend the summer at their Elberon homo, -
will also the families Of Mr.. Robert Winthrop
and Mr. Pierre Lorillard. Jr. Mr.. and Mrs..
George Frelinghuysen havekaken one Of the
While the metropolitan season has been
waning for the last two weeks, the old and con-
sentative society set Of Boston have been in
dulging to an unusual extent In weddings.
garden parties. four-in-hand dinners, and IT.
erary and artistic entertainments The after
noon reunion. which was called tea" but
was in effect very picturesque and almost
historic garden party, given by Mrs. Ole Bull,
at Mr.. James Russell Lowell's old family home
stead at Cambridge, drew together crowd
OF notabilities from Boston and Har-
ward. striking feature Of the ocoa-
sion was Norwegian dance ON the
lawn. by the three daughters Of the poet
Longfellow-Miss Annie Longfellow. Mrs.
childhood has been immortslized by their
father in his poem called Tho Chill
dren's Hour" Miss Norton. daughter of
Prot Charles Eliot Norton. accompanied thom
on the violin. which she plays so well that
strangers who see her constantly with her in
innate friend. Miss Olea Bull. frequently mis-
take her for that young lady. under the i'm
preston that 80 fine touch and such complete
command Of the instrument could only have
come by inheritance.
Another garden party. to which large num-
Der Of cards have been issued in New York,
will be given by Mr.. and MIRA Robert c. Win
ehkOp ~ ucoukiiuA ou1I1AuoE uOul0 db
Brookline on the 22d. Time has mellowed and
perfected this ancient residence and given it a
charm possessed by few country houses In this
part Of the world. and which money and artis-
tic taste are equally powerless to obtain. Tho
house, which Is o large. but plain stone struc-
ture. stands In extensive grounds, where the
rich verdure and the giant trees speak elo-
auently Of the lapse Of years. The entrance
hall, which is Of vast extent, is hung from floor
to. ceiling with portraits Of dead and gone
Winthrops dating back to colonial days, while
busts and statutes in bronze and marble Of
departed worthless. some in periwigs and laco
rufies. others In palmer Puritan garb. furnish
almost o history Of Massachusetts for the last
three hundred years.
The weddings Of Miss Helen Ames and Mr..
Hooper. Of Miss Gardiner and Mr.. William
Cabot, and Of Mr.. Nathaniel Thayer and Of
Miss Pauline Revere. have all been notable o.
casions. and have kept the gay world Of Boston
in town unusually late this summer. On
Thursday next the marriage Of Mrs. John Law
renee and Miss Martha Peabody viii close the
list OF society weddings for this season.
Visitors In London during the last two
months, who went there under the impression
that the Jubilee" would bring them sunshine,
jollity. and enjoyment, have found themselves
much disposed to echo tho inquiry of little
girl. not OF tho typo familiar to readers
of Punch. who found herself at ono Of
those dreary functions called Q childrenb
ball. and when the evening was moro than
half over. plaintively asked when the party
was going to begin" American and Cont.
mental travellers who have found London
little darker. wetter. and gloomier than ever,
and have failed to discover any place worth
seeing in tho least accessible to their money or
their efforts, have also beam fnelfned In IN.
quire when the Jubilee is likely 10 beain.s
Probably never. 30 far as they are concerneds
but to those within the ven It Is evident that
the first notes Of exultation have been already
sounded. and the next few weeks will SEQ In
London an assemblage Of crowned heads and
OF heads that are heirs to crowns. such as only
q coronation or royal funeral has hitherto
brought together. Pomp. show. and glitter
will be conspiouously present. and drive
through Hyde Park and the West End during
the next fifteen days will be better worth Sec